In 2025, 56 US girls were named Zayda, making it the 2,997th most common girls’ name of the year, down 413 places from #2,584 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 69 girls named Zayda in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,817, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 109. For comparison, it was #1,907 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zayda in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 5 babies. In all, 2,305 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 915 babies named Zayda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 902 US girls were named Zayda; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 109. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,701 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zayda ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #2,628 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zaida (3,929 babies since 1880) and Zada (3,108 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sayeda are summarised on this page.